slatternly

• Shacks for the men-at-arms straggled about the bailey wall, and women, slatternly or decked in gaudy finery, looked from the doors. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
• Without taste, modesty, good sense, or natural refinement, she accompanies her dear Silas in his round of life, sympathizing in his lowness, his common feeling, and his common complaints--slatternly in her dress, rude in speech, coarse in manner, slovenly in her household duties. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• The wives of many men of letters have been dissolute, ill-humoured, slatternly, and have run into all the frivolities of the age. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• Imagine going to school half fed and poorly clothed, sometimes the butt of a playmate's gibes because of a drunken father or a slatternly mother, required to study subjects that make no appeal to the child and in a language that is not native, and then back to the street, perhaps to sell papers until far into the night, or to run at the beck and call of the public as a messenger boy. —  Society Its Origin and Development
• As for the slatternly women, Phil really believed he could see lines of worry on many faces; as if they feared that the best chance that had ever come their way were fated to be cast aside, just through the obstinacy of one man, and he the McGee The younger element alone appeared to look upon the occasion as a picnic especially arranged for their benefit. —  Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat

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